Sorry for the late reply lihed. We often get a lot of bushfires in this country, but no I am well and truly safe from them. I do have a lot of bushland at the back of my house, but we have never had any problems with bushfires in our area (touch wood). The bushfires are down south near Sydney, 1,000 kilometers away. Some my friends that are living down there are affected by then though. Some are getting sick from breathing in the smoke all the time.

Thanks for that. My friends are suffering from the fires, but at least they haven't had anything valuable destroyed by fire, unlike six or seven years ago in Victoria (further south) I had a friend who's two teenage daughters burned to death while trying to save their horses.